Broome Travel Coverage

LEAD: Not many settlements on this earth, so far as one can gather, sport a life-size divers' recompression chamber on a plinth in the public park. Few enough have a crashed airliner set up as a monument at the end of the main street. Rare are the...

By SIMON WINCHESTER; Simon Winchester's latest book, ''Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles,'' will be published in January by Prentice Hall/Simon & Schuster